Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 2

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THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. | OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS THE VOLSTEAD LAW MUST BE ENFORCED Leading editorial of the New York Evening Mail, Dec. 30, 1920 The pro-liquor forces of this country are engieavormg to bedevil its standard of good citizenship by pretending that only | a handful of fanatics want to see the Volstead act enforced. They forget that act was passed as the result of many years of agitation which gave the country full time to consider the merits.c of the questions involved and that what the country, in full con- | sonance with the Constitution, determined to do, it sooner or; later will do. : There is no reason within the limits of our Constitutional| rights and privileges why persons who dislike the Volstead law| should not agitate now for its repeal. That would be the fair| and open way of fighting for the so-called individual liberties which they profess to prize. But that is not what the wet propa-| gandists are doing. They are seeking by every means in their power, including the deliberate debauching of weak and crim- inal minds with promises of high bootlegging profits, to discredit | the observance of a law which is as binding on every citizen as that against murder. Make no mistake about it. You can not begin to pick and choose which laws of your country you will obey and expect that vour next door neighbor will not do the same thing if he can get away with it. You can not have the gangster a menace to so- ciety when he holds up a man for ten dollars in the street and a hero when he brings a case of whiskey to your house and charges you a price that is mostly blackmail. Part of the wet propaganda has gone to showing that pro- hibition can not be enforced by showing that arrests have been comparatively few; part of it has gone to show that prohibition is a failure because arrests are increasing. No one doubts the difficulty of enforcing the law, but only the purblind will hold that the increase in arrests shows an increase in crime in this case. It shows greater efficiency on the part of enforcement officers, and that efficiency will increase as the public begins to realize the menace that is involved in the wets’ methods. The man who now thwarts the law of his country by buy- ing whiskey knows that it has been obtained either under false pretenses or that it has been stolen; there is no other way of ob-| taining it except through the bribery of public officials. He is de- {iberately encouraging the breaking of many more laws than the Volstead law; he is indirectly responsible for such murders as that of Monk Eastman. Yet he parades himself as a good citi-| zen who is horrified when some half-idiotic creature preaches the overthrow of the Constitution. The Constitution can survive the verbal attacks of the demented. It can not survive the moral degeneration of our own citizens, which is what open defiance of the laws made under it would mean eventually. When public opinion realizes that, the full.enforcement of the law will quickly follow. L | ONLY A “BUM” BUT— ! Milton Krieczak slept for three nights in the city lockup aL‘1 Green Bay, Wis., not long ago because he hadn’t the price to! buy a bed. “For two years,” Milton told the jailer, “I never earned less than $8 a day. I worked in the shipyards in the Lake Supe- rior region. All the money that came my way I spent; I don’t know why I didn’t save some of it, but I just didn’t. I'm out of a job, haven't a nickle in the world and I need sleep. I walked into G.reen Bay hoping to get work, but there is none for me.” Eight dollars a day, six days a week, for two years means that Milton spent more than $5,200 with nothing but regret to show for it. Could there be a stronger sermon for thrift? Milt doesn’t know why he didn’t save some of that easy f(iiyg g:musand; he knows he could have done so, but he “just idn’t.” How many of us are “just didn’ters?”’ We know that we could put 25 cents a day into a United | States thrift stamp. . In our heart we know that we could fill a $100 certificate yv_'lth $5 Treasury Savings Stamps and never miss the money, | if we set about it. .We know that in the last 12 months we could have put al considerable amount of money that we spent unwisely into wise !nvestments, of which none is more satisfying than interest bear- ing, taé'e’}(letn:lptfi goven:{ment savings securities. i “Eig] ollars a day and nothing to show for it,” Milt, “Pm some bum.” . e e Buck up Milt, old boy, ,you have learned YOUR lesson. 0 P THE FREE PASS | e “Free Pass” on the railroads may be a good thing for the “deadheads” and the railroads, but not for the public,ggen-i erally. Inthe end the public pays the freight. 2 -0- The “booze bottle” and the “booze breath” will get little encouragement from the women voters these days. sl | ‘ If the fellows who “want to getin” office only knew it they , possibly by attending S AR e b o would get acquainted with the women Sunday school. The girl who wears overshoes, or vamp goloshes, unbuckled from top to| §attom, and goes sloshing alongAthe street, reminds one of a drunken sailor| in a storm, as he lumbers and lingers along the street.—Stillwater Gazette. | A lot of merchants are stopping their advertising because business is 1 bad. They should also stop their life insurance because their health is good“ —Baudette Region. | | and publicly ridicules him, | President Sarros. | ster protested. | and T unde SYNOPSIS. | ~John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, after cleaning up a fors tune in Death 'Valley, Calif., boards a train for the Kast. lle befrlends a young | lady annoyed by a masher, thoroughly ' CHAPTER 1. trouncing the “pest. i CHAPTER 1L—At Denver Webster re- | celves a letter from Billy Geary, his clos- | est friend. Geary urges him 1o come to! Sobrunte, * Central America, to financo | and develop a minlng claim. He decides | to go. ‘ CHAPTER III —Dolores R the | young woman Webster befriended, and who fias wade a deep impression on him, as he has on her, 1s also on the way to Sobrante, CHAPTER IV.—At Buenaventura, capl. tal of Sobrante, Billy Geary, ill niless, iy living ‘on the charity ot Jenks,” keeper of u_dramshop. She re-| a cablegram from Dolores, telling coming. CITAPTER V.—Doulores’ father, Ricardo | Iuiey, president of Sobrante, had bLeen killed ih @ revolution led by ‘Samos. (e | present executive. Dolores, w chill of | eight. was smuggled out of the country | by Mother Jenks and supported by her tn the Unit Sta The old woman, ashamed of her occupation and habits of lite, feurs to meet Dolores, and sends Geury to the boat to say she has gone to the United States, CHAPTER VI.—Webster, on his way to, Sobrante, is taken ill on the train, and | 1 in a hospital at New Orleans two weeks. Geary bungles his mission, Dolo- res easily seeing through his story. She reets Mother Jenks as her friend and cnefactor. Geary falls desperately in love with the girk i CITAPTER VIL—At New Orleans, while | waiting for the steamer to Buenaventura, | Webster saves the life of a young man Wnho 1s attacked by two assassins. The | Kou!h leaves Webster without disclosing | is_identity. CHAPTER VIIL—On the steamer Web- ster finds his stateroom occupled by stranger who declares his intentlon of being his guest to Buenaventura. At first | angered, Webster and the stranger, after A somewhat forcible argument, reach an | amicable agreement. Webster recognizes him as the youth wlhose life he had saved | the day before, though the other does not know Webster. CHAPTER IX.—Arrlving at Sobrante, Geary welcomes Webster and is nental in lelping his friend's shore. The latter i3 known to W s “Andrew Bowers.” Gy Rt Mother Jenks'. 5 that Geary and Dolores are in love with the intentlon of giving Gea: v cthance he smilingly contradicts the girl's ' btatement that they have met before. | and | ry CHAPTER X.—Webster recelves a ! warning conveyed by “Don Juan Cafe- | tero,” really John J. Cafferty, Irishman | »f good qualities fallen through’ overindul- Eence in llquor, that there is a plot to | assassinate him, Webster makes a flrm riend of Cafferty. Later, the American s fnsulted by a Sobrantean army officer | A challenge | to a duel is nccepted_under such stern conditions that the Sobranteans with- draw ft. CHAPTER XI.—Webster secretly visits “Andrew Bowers"” at Mother Jenks'. ITe fearns that ‘““Bowers” is Ricardo Ruey, Bon of the assussinated president, brother | of Dolores (whom he belleves dead), and ! that a revolution is contemplated. Next morning he tells Dolores that her brother, of whom she has no recollection, is in the country, projecting the overthrow of Very much in_lov irl, but belieVing that her been bestowed on Gea s to Investigate the mine come to finance. with the fection D, Webster | which he h: CHAPTETR XIL—Webster, after lookinz | it over, decides fo put his ‘whole fortune | into the-mine. He sends Billy Gears to the United States to purchase the ne sary equipment. advising him to marry Dolores In Buenaventura before he leaves. Knowing that unless Ruey can overthirow rros hiis mine will be confiscated, Web- ster agrees to finance the venture. Re- turning to Buenaventura, he Ix astonished to find Dolores still there and Geary on his way to the United States, CHAPTER XIIT.—Dolores tells Webster that Billy Geary had asked her to marry him and thut she had Amaze but entirely misunders: the_situ tlon, he accepls the explanation. 1le e plains to Dolores how her brother I 1ald his plans for tha overthrow of ros. Webster aind Ricardo have a final understanding, (Continued From Last Issue) T dare Ricardo hopes to take Sarros by surprise, bot- {le the city garrison up in the cuar- tel and the government palace and there hesiege them. Having secured nominal control of a seaport, he can import arms and ammunition; also he can recruit openly, and at his leisure | hunt down the outlying garrisons. The sarros crowd doesn't suspect his pres- ence In Sobrante, and by a quick, sav- stroke he should he able to jerk one-horse government up by the eels in Jig time—particularly sinee zenry feel no lo; ard ros regime and are only kept tion through fear and laci of a leader. I'm going to play Rica do to win, if he isn't Killed in the opening row, for I'm certain he'll lead his men.” “I dare say he Is greatly like his father—not afraid to die for his coun- try,” she replied presently. *“I am' d to be here when he takes that “I think 1 1 “Oh, but you mustn't be here,” Web- “W1 “Red —probably o use there’ll be street fighting desperate character, nd your countrymen go ather war-mad and do things not sanctioned by The Hague tribunal, If there's a steamer in port at the time I'll put you aboard her until the issue fs decided. I'm going to see Riear- do tomorrow night and learn the de- tails of his plan of campaign; after that I'll be able to act intelligently.” N @ Peter B.Kyne Author of “Cappy . - Ricks,” “The Valley of the Giants,” Etc. Copyida Vi Woisr K Kyse Coloiidl Turaveéo, Were consultation when Jack Webster, hav- ing left the Motel Mateo via his bed- room window in order to avoid pos- sible espionage and made his way to ¥l Buen Amigo on foot, was an- nounced by Mother Jenks. The three conspirators greeted him joyously, as indecd they should, for his loyal friendship had thus far been one of their principal bulwarks, “Well Webster inquired, after gre g them and cavefully closing the door behind him, “here I am in Buenaventura, marking time and, like Mr, M wher, waiting for something to turn up.” “You will not be required to w: Jong,” Colonel Caraveo a “Thanks to your kindly oflices, trap alr y haited.” “Qur friend, Ruey, has, since our first meeting, insisted on dispensing with my consent when using me to “Tell Me Your Plan of Campaign.” promote his enterprises, Colonel. Strange to say, I have heen unalsle to berate him for his impudence. I was down at Leber's warchouse this after- noon. tools consigned to me there to build a pretty fair highway to the gates of the government palace, I should say. I hope you have all pondered the re- sult to me, an innocent bystander, if your enemies should take a notion to apen one of #ose cases of shovels.” Colonel Caraveo favored him with a benignant swmile. “You forget, my friend, that I am second in command in the intelligence department, and that during the absence of your par- ticular friend, Raoul Sarros, in New Orleans, I am first in command. Since 1 already kuow what those cases con- tain, naturally T shall not take the trouble to investigate.” “Well, that's a comfort, Colonel.” “You have investigated your mining concession, Webster?” Ricardo Ruey asl . “You bel.” “What did you find?” “A couple of mijlions in sight.” Ricardo shook his head slowly is not in sight, old man,” he reminded Webster. “Without our aid—and you cannot have our aid unless our revo- lution is successful, when you shall ions, friend Webster, v to get them— vyour eyes and T wonder want those 1 there is but one and that is to cl play our game to the limit. it you'd go further—about $40,000 fur- | out a commiss ther, to be exact.” “I might, but I never go it blind for a wad like that. What's your trou- ble?” “The Individual funds of the revolutionary junta in New Orleans was murdered last night; the funds were deposited to his cred- | ! it as agent in a certain bank, and be- ave passed, mer chartered, and 200 men, whose business it is to fizht under any flag at §3 gold per day and no questions asked, are now mark- in; time on the Isle of PJnes, off the ast of Cuba, waiting for our steam- all for them uand land them, rifles and ammunition and tor field guns and some ire Maxims, at San Bruno, some 18 miles up the coast from here. The zuns and munitions are now in Tampa, having been shipped to our agent there on s t draft, with bill of lading a hed; the steamer is char- tered and en route to Tampa from Norfolk, Va. and we must pay the owners $10000 the day she begin: ing on her cargo, and S10,000 be; she unloads it on lighters at ., “We must also pay 200 men one month’s pay in advance—that isy $30,- 000; we cannot meet this expense and still take up that sight draft now awaiting our attention in the bank at | Tampa. “In return for this favor to the pro- ional government of Sobrante, you ! il have the note of the provisional government, signed by the provisional president, myself, and the provisional cabinet, Dr. Pacheco, Colonel Cara- veo, and two other gentlemen whom you will meet in due course unless in the interim they should be killed. And as a bonus for saving this country from a brutal dictator, who is pillag- ing its resources for his personal prof- it, you shall have a decd of gift to that mining concession you and your friend, Geary, are so desirous of work- ing; also the title shall be certified by the government and the Supreme | court of Sobrante and absolutely se- cured to you against future aggres- | sion in the event that the new regime should be overthrown at some future date. Also you have my profound itude and that of my people.” o “Tell me your plan of campaign,” | Webster suggested. “In a secret rendezvous in the mountains I have 1,000 picked men— my father's veterans. They are armed with modern rifles and machetes. The nitrate company, which has been suf- | fering from heavy export duties im- posed by Sarros, has loaned me all the | rolling stock of the railroad for one | night. It will be mobilized at San Miguel de Padua by next Satunday v P the ! You have cnough road-making! “at | freely—your milllons are, | not in sight. If _\'oui in charge of the, | motor truck of mine. night; my troeps will arrive izte the same afternoon and entrain at once. “In the interim all telephone and | iwlegmph communications with Bue- | naventura will be severed. The night| | previous our steamer will have dis-| | charged her cargo of men and muni tions at San Bruno; a chain of out- posts will at once be established and | ! all communication with the capital i will be shut off. | “On Saturday night, also, the Con-| | solidated Fruit company’s steamer, | La Estrellita, will make port with 30/ Americans in her steerage. These | men will be road-makers and miners | | haported by Mr. J, S. Webster, and in order to make certain that they will come, you have already ordered them by cable. We have arranged with the port doctor to give La Es-! trellita a clean bill of health the very | night she arrives, Hence the ship’s | authorities will not be suspicious, I hope, when we remove our men after dark and house them in Leber’s ware-| house, where they will spend the night unpacking ‘those spades, picks and shovels of yours and getting the fac- tory grease off them. i At 4 o'clock in the 'morning vari: ons citizens of Soprante, with rebel- lion in their hearts, will begin to mo- bili at Leber's warehouse, where they will be issued rifles and ammuni- tion and where they will wait until the action is opened to the south by the detachment from San Bruno, which, having marched from San Bru- no the night before, will have arrived outside the city, and will be awaitin | the signal from me. I will a from the west—cautiously. “Now, there are 5000 government troops in the city and in varfous can- tonments on the outskirts. These can- tonments are to be rushed and set afive; I figure that the confusion of our sudden attack will create a riot— | particularly when I do something that isn’t very popular as a war feature down this way, and that is char and keep on coming. “The government {roops will start | to fall back on the city, only to find themselves flanked by a fierce artil- lery fire from the San Brumo contin- gent; the troops from the arsenal, the guards at the palace and the Fif- teenth regiment of infantry, now sta- tioned at the Cuartel de Infanterin, next the government palace, will be patched post haste to repulse the attack, and 400 men, with the machine gun company waiting in Leber's ware- house, will promptly move upon them from the rear and capture the enal. There are a few thousand rifles and a lot of ammunition stored there; 1 miss my guess if, a8 soon as the news Lot its capture by the rebels spreads tlrough the city (and I shall have men (o spread it), I shall not have a few thousand volunteers eager to help 1, overthrow Sarros. “Once cut oft from the arsenal and | the palace, Sarros must fight his way y in order to have the: xiightest chance to suppress the rebel- lion, for he will have no refuge in the ! the rolling slock in our hands, with- ary for his troops, with- | out a base of supplies, éven should 1he government troops fight their way {hrough, they leave the city in my hands and I'll recruit and arm my men .nd hunt them down like jack rabbits at wy leisure. Onte let the arsenal and the palace fall into my hand: | once let me proclaim myself provis- jonald president, once let the pecple know that Ricardo Ruey, the beloved, lives again in the person of his son, and I tell you, Webster, this country is saved. How do you like my plan| of campaign?” “it couldn’t be any better if I had pleoned it m, £. You might accept my suggestion and armor that little It arrived on | i vesterda steamer.” | nd some armor shect steel with| it—sheet stecl already loop-holed for | the barrels of the two machine guns| it will carry!” Dr. Pacheco cried joy+ ously, | “Have you provided a chauffeur, ' Doctorz” ! “I have—likewise an armored sheet- | steel closet for him to sit in while chaffeuring.” “Thow visional manded peintediy. out that loan to the pm-: zovernment?” Ricardo de- n » Webster did not hesitate. Afterall, i do it to guarantee the happiness of wha m to himi now? ~Billy had gone away, his hopes raised high, already a millionaire after the fash- jon of mining men, who are ever ready to count their chicks before they are hatched, provided only they see the eggs. Besides, there was Dolores. Full well Webster realized that Billy, tossed back once more into the jaws of the well-known wolf of poverty, would not have the courage upon his return to Sobrante to ask Dolores to share his poverty with him; should the revolution fail, Ricardo Ruey would be an outcast, a hunted man with a price on his head, and in no position to care for his sister, even should he survive long enough to know he had a sister. - She would be alone in the world if he, John Stu- rt Webster, failed her now—wmore than ever she needed n man’s strength and affection to help her navigate the tide-rips of life, for life to a woman, alone and unprotected and dependent upon her labor for the bread she must eat, must contain, at best, a full meas- ure of terror and despalr and loneli- ness. He pictured her through a grim processional of years of skimping and | petty sacrifices—and all because he, Jobn Stuart Webster, had, hesitated to lend a dreamer and an idealist a pal- try $40,000 without security. No, there was no alternative. If his friendship for Billy was worth a, sou, ‘it was worth $40,000; if h ent, unrequited love for Dolores Ruey was worthy of her, no sacrifice on his part could be too great, provided it guar- anteed her happiness. “Ruined again,” he sighed. “This is only another of those numerous oc- caslons when the tail goes with the hide. How soon do you want the money 2’ Ricardo Luiz Ruey leaned forward and gazed very earnestly at John Stu- art Webster, “Do you really trust me | that much, my friend?” he asked feel- ingly. “Remember, I am asking you for $40,000 on faith.” “Qld sport,” John Stuart Webster answered, “vou went overboard in Buenaventura harbor and took @ chance among those big, liver-colored, hammer-headed sharks. And you did that because you had a cause you thought worth dying for. I never knew a man \who had a cause that was worth dying for who would even es- | | pouse a cause worth swindling for. You win—only I want you to under- stand one thing, Ricardo: I'm not doing this for the sake of saving that mining concession the Sarros govern- ment gave my friend, Geary. I'm above doing a thing like this for mon- ey—for myself. It seems to me Imust two people I love: My friend, Geary, and the girl he's going to marry. I reject your promissory note and your ! promise of a deed of gift for that con- cession, and accept only your grati- tude. There are no strings to this loan, because it isn’t a loan at all. It's a bet. If you lose, I'll help you ! get out of the country and absolve you of any indebtedness to me. How- ever, if you should win, I know you'll reimburse we from the national treas- “Nothing that will cost the citizens ' of this country one penny of their | beritage. I'm going to Det this mon- ey—bet it, understand, not loan fit. | However, if you want to be a sport and grant me a little favor in return, you can.” H “Fire away.” | “After I give you this money, I don't want the doctor and the colonel to kiss me to show how grateful they are.” “You wonderful fellow! Jack Web- ster, if I had a sister I should want her to marry you.” ! “Show how little you'd think of your sister—staking her to a sentl- mental jackass. Shall I cable the money to New Orleans in the morn- ing?” “That will do very nicely.” mé, and he's Thst patience and put an- other man in the job he promised me; T've raised Billy’s hopes sky-high and had to bet $40,000 to keep them there; I've been fool enough to fall in love with my friend’s fiancee; I'm a hu- man cat’s p~w, and the finest thing I can do now is to go out next Sunday morning with that machine gun com- pany from Leber's warchouse and get killed.” CHAPTER XIV. 4 The following morning Webster in< formed Dolores fully of his interview with her brother and his confreres the night before, concealing from her only the fact that he was financing the revolution and his reasons for financ- ing it. ITe was still depressed, and Dolores, observing his mood, forbore to: intrude upon it. ~Accordingly she claimed the prerogative of her sex— a slight headache—and retreated to ner room, in the privacy of which she was suddenly very much surprised to find herself weeping softly because John Stuart Webster was unbappy and didn’t deserve to be. . It was impossible, however, for Webster long to remain impervious to the note of ridiculousness underlying the forthcoming tragic events. Here was a little 2x4 poverty-stricken hot- hed of ignorance and Intrigue calling itself a republic, a little stretch of country no larger than a couple of big western counties, about to indulge in the national pastime of civil war and unable to do it except by grace of an humble citizen of a sister re- publie! Five or six thousand ignorant, ill- equipped, ill-drilled semi-brigands call- ing themselves soldiers, entrusted with the task of enabling gne of their num- her to ride, horse and dog, over 1,000, 000 people! How farcical! No wonder Rieardo, with his northern viewpoint, approach- ed his patriotic task with gayety, al- most with' contempt. And when Web- ster recalled that the about-to-be-born provisional government had casually borrowed from him the sum of forty thousand dollars in order to turn the Informed Dolores Fully of His Inter- view. trick—borrowing it, forsooth, in much the same spirit as a commuter board- ing his train without the necessary fare hails a neighbor and borrows ten cents—his natural optimism rted itself and he chuckled as in fancy he heard himself telling the story to Ned- dy Jerome and being branded a liar for his pains. “Well, I've had one comfort ever “To whom shall I cable the mon- ey?" “Send it to the Picayune National bank of New Orleans, with instruc- tions to credit account No. 246, J. E. P, trustee. In this little game | we are playing, my friend, it is saf- er to deal in numbers and fnitials rather than names, The local cable office leaks quite regularly.” “Very well, Ricardo, I'll attend to ! it first thing in the morning. Go to it and win, or there'll be several new faces whining around the devil, not the least of which will be mine, When | you charge, remember youre charg-| ing for my $40,000—and go through' with it. I worked rather hard for | that $40,000, and if I must lose it, I| do not want to do it in a half-hearted | fight. Give me, at least, a bloody run | for my money. Il have a reserved | seat somewhere watching the game.” | “If yow'll take my advice, youll go | aboard La Estrellita and stay there | until the issue is decided. When the | first gun is fired, it signals the open season on mining engineers who butt | in on affairs of state.” E “What! And me with a healthy | bet down on the result! I hope I'm | a better sport than that.” | “You're incorrigible. Be careful, | then, and don’t get yourself potted by ‘ a stray bullet.” “Shall I see you fellows before the blow-oft 7" “I scarcely think so.” “Then if you're through with me, T'l1 bid you all good-by and good luck. T'll have dinner with you in the pal- ace Sunday evening.” “Taken." fay I bring a guest?” By all means.” Webster shook hands with the trio and departed for his hotel. For the first time in many years he was heavy | of heart, crushed. “Neddy Jerome | was right,” he soliloquized. *“This is | the last place on earth for me to have : come to. I've made Neddy sore on since I first saw that girl,” he re- flected philosophically. “While I've never been so unhappy in all my life before, or had to tear my soul out by the roots so often, things have been coming my way so fast from other ai- rections that I haven’t had much op- portunity to dwell on the matter, And for these compensating offsets, good Lord, I thank Thee.” IIe was John Stuart Webster again when Dolores saw him next; during the succeeding days his mood of - cheerfulness and devil-may-care indif- ference never left him. And through- out that period of marking time Do- lores was much in his society, a con- dition which he told himself was not to his liking but which, nevertheless, he could not obviate without seeming indifferent to her happiness. And to permit his friend’s fiancee to languish in loneliness and heart-break did not appear to John Stuart Webster as the part of a true friend or a courtly gen- tleman—and he remembered that she had once called him that. They rode together in the cool of the morning; they drove together on the Malecon in the cool of the evening; chaperoned by Don Juan Cafetero and a grinning Sobrantean, they went shark fishing in Leber's launch; they played dominoes together; they discussed, throughout the long, lazy, quiet after- noons, when the remainder of their world retired for the siesta, books, art, men, women, and things. And not once, throughout two weeks of camaraderie, did the heart-racked Webster forget for a single instant that he was the new friend, destined to become the old friend; never, to the girl's watchful eyes, did he be- tray the slightest disposition to estab- lish their friendly relatioLs on a closer basis. Thus did the arrival of The Day find them. Toward sunset they rode out together along the bay shore and noted far_out_to sea the_ smear of (Continued on Page 5)